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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
John Whittaker letter to Cincinnatus Hiner Miller
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Whittaker congratulates Miller on his tales, calling them "some of the boldest flights of imagination I ever saw as any man could conceive of" and lauding Miller for his "fixed reputation as among the first of novelists." He writes of the situation in Oregon: "Gold discoveries and Gold excitements - Gold Humbug - form the staple of our local news." He also writes of the state of local and national politics, in the wake of the Civil War.
mssHM 20707
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Manuscripts
Collection consists of four diaries kept by John McNulty Clugston while serving with the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company G, during the Civil War from 1861 to 1864, one carte-de-visite portrait (presumably of Clugston), and a letter from Rutherford B. Hayes to Clugston's widow Alice V. Clugston, 1887 September 2.
mssClugston
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Johnson requests the carte de visite of the unnamed recipient and his fellow office workers, and describes an intended office Photograph Album. He also describes the schooner Sacramento and asks after mutual acquaintances.
mssHM 72268
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Manuscripts
The collection consists primarily of four diaries kept by John McNulty Clugston while serving with the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company G, during the Civil War from 1861 May 27 to 1864 July 9. The regiment was based in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, and participated in the Battle of Antietam. The diaries contain mostly brief entries regarding regimental actions and skirmishes, camps, scouting expeditions, drills, marches, duties, changes in command, furloughs, deaths, and prisoners and arms captured. Clugston also mentions the weather, food, clothing shortages, war news, court martials, and the arrival of mail. There are several entries discussing activities in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. surrounding the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, including balloon ascensions by Thaddeus Lowe. Company G soldiers Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley are occasionally mentioned. In addition, the diaries contain lists of clothing issued or purchased, correspondents, regimental officers and company members, and pay received. The bulk of entries is in ink, with some in pencil.Also present is one carte-de-visite of a young man, presumably John McNulty Clugston, seated in a chair; the penciled date of 1869 February is on the reverse.In addition, the collection contains one autograph letter signed from Rutherford B. Hayes, Fremont, Ohio, to Alice V. Clugston, Topeka, Kansas, 1887 September 2, regarding a recent reunion of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He mentions the regiment's receipt of "the valuable diary of your late husband John M. Clugston, our comrade of Co. G.," presumably referring to the 1886 copy of Clugston's diaries now in the Civil War collections at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museum. Includes addressed envelope. (2 pages)
mssClugston
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Visual Materials
Photomontage of reduced-size carte-de-visite portraits of important Union figures from the American Civil War. All the portraits are signed. Image includes military generals and officers, Abraham Lincoln and other government officials, and "A Private Soldier" under the text "The last in rank, but not in honor."
photOV 11686
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Manuscripts
Hall writes of experiences in the California mines and of details of daily business and social life, including events brought on by the Civil War. Includes photocopy of the front of the envelope, but the original envelope is not present.
mssHM 16732